nawab

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. historical
    — Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated nose-ring diamond, ‘the light of the Dewan.’
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).

词形变化

nawabs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anomalous nawab blue nawab China nawab common nawab great nawab jewelled nawab nawabship pallid nawab plain nawab stately nawab Staudinger's nawab Sulawesi blue nawab tailed nawab
相关词
nabob naib

词源

From Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”).
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